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Jim Perry (television personality)

American-Canadian television entertainer (1933–2015)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 1, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

James Edward Perry was a Canadian television game show host, singer, announcer, and performer in the 1970s and 1980s.

Editorial summary

“Jim Perry (television personality)” enters the record as american-Canadian television entertainer (1933–2015). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Perry, television and personality can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current 19-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Perry, television and personality.
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Why this record matters

“Jim Perry (television personality)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Perry, television and personality provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 1, 2026.

Critical limits

Later fame can flatten the distinction between original context, subsequent adaptation and institutional collecting history. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jim Perry (television personality)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.